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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT 7 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 0000 ooooooooooooooooooooooooo o JULY 30, 1203. o o o o o o o o o s g TT n n V V o o 11 1 f Big Discount to Reduce Our Enormous Stock Before dt the Building Season Closes. & a o o o o o o o o o o o o o d o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 0000 ooooooooooooooooooooooooo If you intend building a house, barn, granary or corn crib we want to give you an estimate on your lumber, shingles, windows, doors, and mill work. It will cost you noth- ing to get our prices and we can save you money, carrying, as we do, a large stock at O Lincoln, and having the most complete planing mill in the state. We make water tanks of all kinds, store fixtures in fact everything that can be made in this line. No matter where you live write us for prices of goods delivered at your station. . We invite a visit and personal inspection of our lumber at our yards, 700 0 street, v and of our planing mill and equipment at 21st and Y streets. 1 : : Z If you cannot Call, your Order by Mail will receive $ ss dt dt Prompt and Careful Attention dt dt dt O : : 0 Fo Wo Brown Ltamber Co 700 O STREET, LINCOLN, NEBR. Pope Leo and the Labor Question Cincinnati, July 26. At the Vine Street Congregational church, the pas tor, Herbert S. Bigelow, took for his theme, Pope Leo and the Labor Problem. Text: "For the needy shall not al ways be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever." Psa. 9: IS. Mr. Bigelow said in part: The graceful and kindly expressions of love and praise which the death of the pope has called forth from the men of all faiths are a tribute, not only to the pope, but also to that growth of Catholicity among men which makes the Protestant world proud of the glories of the motner church, and sin cerely mournful of her loss. It was the good fortune of our Cath olic brethren to have had for their head a man whom the world loved, and it is good to know that there is fcardly a Protestant heart anywhere which does not cherish his memory as With filial affection. This morning I desire to remind you of the pope's contribution to the dis cussion of that all-important problem of labor. His attitude upon this ques tion should not be overlooked in the enumeration of his services to man kind. Unfortunately we have some Protest ant preachers who defend the existing social order as ordained of God, and deprecate as harmful any discussion of proposed changes. This is not the teaching of Scripture, neither was it the teaching of the pope. Protestants who have substituted the authority of the Bible for the authority of the church ought to be influenced by such words as these of pur text. They ehould be hospitable to every sincere effort to improve social conditions and ehould never be reconciled to the pres ence of wide-spread and galling pov erty. "For the need shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever." Catholics for whom the pope speaks &s one having authority should give heed to these words of Leo: "At this moment the condition of the working population is the question of the hour; and nothing can be of higher interest to all classes of the state than that it should be rightly and reasonably tieclded." These words were written twelve years ago in the pope's famous encyclical letter on the "Condition of Labor." This letter solemnly declares that it is not only the duty of citizens, but especially the duty of the church to discuss this most momentous of ques tions. The third paragraph of the let ter begins with this emphatic sentence: "But all agree, and there can be no question whatever, that some remedy must be found, for the misery and wretchedness which press so heavily at this moment on the large majority o the very poor." Much is said today, concerning the unjust distribution of wealth, which seems severe and revolutionary. The street corner agitator talks of "wage slavery" and some will say that such talk ought to be suppressed as calcu lated to set clas against class. But listen to these words of the pope: "A small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses of the poor a yoke little better than slavery itself." The spirit of this letter gives am ple encouragement to these who would so change society that it shall not be possible for "rich men and masters," to use the language of the pope, "to exercise pressure for the sake of gain upon the indigent and the destitute, and to make one's profit out of the need of another." It is true that in this letter the pope failed to discriminate between the doc trines of socialists and single tax men and those of communists. And it was because of these misconceptions of the single tax movement, that Henry George wrote an open letter to the pope setting forth In a reverent and forceful way the claims of his school of political economy. There is not wanting evidence that the pope was led to modify his views of the single tax movement. The man who persists in error after new light has come to him sacrifices truth to personal vanity. A great man will change his mind on occasion. This the pope seems to have done. This seems to be a legitimate inference to be drawn from the history of the Mc Glynn case. It will be recalled that Edward Mc Glynn had been excommunicated for publicly advocating the election of Mr. George as mayor of New York. This was in 1887. Four years later the pope's encyclical was published which contained some strictures upon the single tax theory. Two years after this McGlynn went to Rome and had a personal interview with the pope in which he explained the opinions of single tax men. Previously to this the pope had received a copy of Henry George's letter and also through the papal ' delegate, Satolli, he had re ceived a statement of the single tax position which McGlynn submitted to Henry George for his indorsement be fore it went to the pope. With these documents before hira the pope received McGlynn at the Vati can, and hearing his case he lifted the ban which had been placed upon him. Therefore single tax men will cherish the memory of Leo XIII. because it was he who gave justice to their be loved McGlynn; for they feel that the church in America has had no more honored name since the days when the noble Las Casas plead for the West Indian slaves at the court of Spain. It is my understanding of the Cath olic doctrine of Infallibility that it Is not held that the pope is above the possibility of error in secular matters, but that in church matters his author ity is not to be questioned. Therefore I assume that it is entirely consistent with orthodox Catholocism to admit that in the formation of his views on politics the pope, like any other man, would necessarily be influenced by his surroundings. But when we remem ber ths environment of a pope I think we may say that Leo XIII. was re markably progressive and took ad vanced ground In his discussion of the labor question. It will.be a groat bless ing to the world If the church should secure a successor to Leo who shall be as nearly abreast with the best po litical thought of the twentieth cen tury. As greeting to the new popo may we not repeat those words with which Henry George closed Lis letter to Leo XIII.? "Servant of the servants of God! I call you by the strongest and sweetest of your titles. In your hands more than in those of any living man, lies the power to say the word and make the sign that shall end an unnatural divorce, and marry again to religion all that 13 pure and high in social aspiration." Under the single tax a man works for what he gets, and ho gcta what he earns. DRUGS AT Wholesale Prices. One or a dozen. Same price. 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